Childhood Obesity Research Seminars

Center for Healthy Weight seminars focus on childhood obesity-related research. They are held on the third Thursday of each month from 12:00-1:00 pm on the third floor of the Clark Center. Research seminars are open to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine staff, faculty and students. 
 
For more information, please contact healthyweight@lpch.org or (650) 723-4130.

Past Seminars

• Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More than We Think
  Brian Wansink, PhD
  June 2009
  
  
• Metformin and Adolescent Obesity
  Darrell Wilson, MD
  April 2009
  
  
• Preschool Children's Behavioral Response to Food-related Toys
  Donna Matheson, PhD
  February 2009
  
  
• The Stanford ATHLETICS Study:  Athletic Training and Health - Lifestyles and Eating Tendencies in College Students
  Rebecka Peebles, MD
  January 2009
  
  
• Brainstorming about How and Why to Teach Young Children about Nutrition
  Ellen Markman, PhD
  December 2008
  
  
• Latest Research and Projects Related to Childhood Obesity
  Tom Robinson, MD, MPH
  November 2008
  
  
• Obesity and Insulin Resistance: From Bedside to Bench
  Tracey McLaughlin, MD, MS  
  June 2008
  
  
• Bariatric Surgery: Tertiary Prevention of Morbid Obesity
  John Morton, MD, MPH, FACS
  May 2008
  
  
• Increasing Physical Activity and Improving Health Outcomes: Do Pedometers Work?
  Crystal Smith-Spangler, MD
  April 2008
  
  
• Exploring Complex Human Disease Using Translational Bioinformatics
  Atul Butte, MD, PhD 
  March 2008
  
  
• Nutrition and Physical Activity Public Policy Update
  Lisa Chamberlain, MD, MPH; Sophia Yen, MD, MPH; Michelle Oppen, MPH
  February 21, 2008
  
  
• Brain Mechanisms of Reward and Decision
  Samuel McClure, PhD
  November 15, 2007
  
  
• Team Sports for Overweight Children: The Stanford SPORT Study
  Dana Weintraub, MD
  October 18, 2007
  
  
• Family Treatment for Child and Adolescent Eating Disorders
  Jim Lock, MD, PhD
  September 20, 2007
  
  
• Studies of Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity
  Tom Robinson, MD, MPH
  August 16, 2007
  
  
• Monogenic Mouse Models of Obesity–Botero
  Todor Arsov, PhD
  July 19, 2007
  
  
• Food for Thought: Television Food Advertising to Children in the United States
  Vicky Rideout, MA
  June 21, 2007
  
  
• Battle of the Weight Loss Diets: Is Anyone Winning (at Losing)?
  Christopher Gardner, PhD
  May 17, 2007
  
  
• Infant and Early Childhood Feeding
  Larry Hammer, MD
  April 19, 2007
  
  
• Pro-ED Websites: Disordered Eating in a New Age
  Rebecka Peebles, MD
  March 15, 2007
  
  
• Who Pays for Obesity?
  Jay Bhattacharya, MD
  February 15, 2007
  
  
• Family- and School-based Nutrition Interventions
  Donna Matheson, PhD
  November 16, 2006
  
  
• New Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
  Tom Robinson, MD, MPH
  October 19, 2006